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Keep your nose down and slip It does it just fine

The parts have to have NORSEE approvals

I just fly with someone half my size in the right - my wife!!! :-) But then again we don't go more than 2+30 without stopping and smelling the roses Why make the trip arduous? Take your time and enjoy the travel.

Like Jim Peace said- Go look under the panel to see if any wiring is blocking the movement This is probably where the problem exists A skinny midget can do the job easy Most of us can't even get a look at the area

@2659AU Are you guys down there required to change the spring or only if it breaks?

IF someone gave a spring to a maker and had one made up as an OPP that might be able to qualify as OPP part IF someone else did the same thing and the same maker made the part to the owners request that would also qualify as OPP Just what day the part was made on might not be relevant What can't happen is the maker making many parts and ADVRTIZING THEM FOR SALE without a PMA and/or owner's participation in the design process. Each part sold MUST come from an order that the owner participates in as required by the OPP regs The owner HAS to participate in the process more than just plunk down money. There has to be a form of some sort provided by the owner specifying just what he wants made with his signature. A design drawing, a part to reverse engineer, the material to make the part , etc. Just like McFarland can make up throttle cables to OPP order yet they have all the parts in stock ready for the OPP participation order Making up numbers of the part and then advertising them for sale can not be done The process has to start with the owner. I know this is going to start a dumpster fire so my shields are up!

Take it to a metal shop Show them what you want them to make out of similar material and do it as an Owner Produced Part. Simple and easy. YOU sign the log book saying you had the part made to your design and the A&P signs it off as installed same Simple easy and legal

Years ago an idea was proffered on the "McDonald's Diet" and one looked at the population as a whole before the proliferation of Micky Ds (@ 1964 or so) and now. All one has to do is compare high school grad pictures to see the affect of the high calorie/low food value diet brought about by the BIG Mac! The timing is amazing A doctor in Seattle 25 years ago did a study around his area by zip code delineating the body mass of subject s by zip code and then over laying the preponderance of McDonalds in each zip code and the higher the Micky Ds count the larger the body mass by zip code.

Dump the vacuum pump and all the other junk. Get the electric step they work great.

Just because its a 4 cylinder Lycoming doesn't mean its allowed in your airplane. BTDT Verify EVERYTHING before money changes hands never trust anything anyone selling an airplane is saying (goes for cars also)! Check it out yourself.

I add to the above - Model and serial number of engine, prop and all major electronics in log book to what is installed in aircraft. Aircraft have been sold with bad numbers installed.

POPORN in hand watching this blow up :-) :-)

Everything is spelled out in the newest release of AC 90-66C below- https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_90-66C.pdf

There is some truth to maintenance and/or operational induced failures. The more you use it the more it wears out and/or possibility of improper reassembly

Lots of legal alternatives for replacement Your A&P should know where and which to use. Look at A/C Spruce for ideas and talk to the A&P You can also have your instrument overhauled by any number of instrument overhaul shops. Again talk to your A&P You'll need a Pitot/Static check after the change anyway.

If you go digital tach be aware that you may need to get used to a wandering RPM number in the window, Even a few RPMs varies the reading on some of them A standard cable driven tach in reality is much easier to use and doesn't cause the "learning curve" of watching the numbers wander around a little Now my change to the old Horizon digital did the RPM dance but I don't know if the EI one does or not. Changed to a Dynon HDX and now just set it a forget it. Getting yours fixed is not a bad idea Less labor to remove and install Less cost and it does what is needed quite efficiently

Are you planning on pulling out the green Brittain A/P tubing? :-) :-) Please show us pictures of the complete install if you can Many of us would be very interested in seeing the process

Most cars just had an engine driven fuel pump just like airplanes do to this day Most of them looked just like the diaphragm pumps we have on Lycomings today IN fact the early airplane ones were adapted from automotive engine driven pumps

I know there is a story here somewhere :-)

So the tank is empty and the valve doesn't turn so you do what? Again just thinking aloud :-) There again, how many times has this ever happened? Can anyone cite an example? It a simple twist plug mechanical valve. The only one I have ever had was on my C-140 and it just got tight to turn over time. Lots of notice.. Could be we are getting worked up over something highly unlikely to happen For me the longer I fly (now over 60 years) the more cautious I get. Age has a way of tempering exuberance. I carry as much fuel as I can and in my case that's always full tanks. I always land with a couple hours left in the tanks. In our short body Mooneys we only have 2 pounds of unuseable fuel on each side (4 pounds total), 1/3 of a gallon each side. Some of our tribe have over a gallon each side. In testing mine I have drained it dry in flight (risk factor accepted for those test flights) and found I can use ALL 26 gallons if needed with a side slip flight attitude. AND when refilled it is exactly 26 gallons in each tank (separate flight test for each tank :-) ) I don't normally operate in that regime but its nice to know what my airplane can do if it was ever needed. No different than hand flying every 3rd approach to mins (or 50 ft CAT III) in good weather just in case IT was ever needed. Knowing what you and your airplane is capable of keeps one out of trouble. Knowing that, you don;t have to venture into the realm of the unknown at a difficult time can, it can save your life. Thinking about ways out of trouble long before faced with the actual event may save your life. I've always treated flying as a game of baseball and I'm the catcher. Everyone is throwing curveballs at me from all directions on the field and its my job to catch every one of them. Once you make a game out of it that lowers the anxiety of what can go wrong this time because you are ahead of the game. You're always thinking ahead. It actually gets fun when nothing can catch you by surprise. Experience is the greatest teacher. All the training in the world can't replace experience. You're not a safe pilot until you have been tempered and you're not tempered until you do something in an airplane that scares the crap out of you and you know you did it, to yourself. Flying takes on an entirely different perspective after that.

Isn't switching tanks patriotic? :-) If the tank valve was electric I might be more worried about its non-function before flight but even then if I had a full tank or landed with ample in the selected tank one could still land somewhere else IF the tank selector didn't function as long as it wasn't run dry before the switch was tried. . Here's a question- IF your procedure is to drain a tank completely and then switch what happens if the selector valve doesn't work at that time? Just thinking aloud. :-)

Our country was founded on anonymity in the face of government Government always has a slow creep toward control It NEVER contracts! This is just what the founding fathers were concerned about One only has to look at the progression from the old TCAs to the now ubiquitous Class B airspace. TCAs (for those who remember them) were sold on the word of not expanding and taking up too much airspace- HMMM Where will it wind up with all the new electronics coming to the forefront? There is no turning back to the days of yore. Switching fuel tanks is microscopic in comparison

This is what's good about GA One can go 5+ hours if he wants while others like me stop every 1 1/2 to 2 to walk around. You'll stop more often when you get a few more years on you and every day is Saturday! :-) AT a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) the Chairman made a speech in which he said that they are looking forward to the day of all electronic money so that way they can control what money gets spent on. If they don't like what you want to buy the purchase won't go through. Now think about how much actual real cash is used today. Look around say a Wally World and watch the transactions- how many times do the customers actually use cash compared to credit cards? ALL of those CC transactions are mined for data bases somewhere. They are also "controlled" by the credit card company who can cut off the card at any time. By their own volition or? Just thinking ahead. The possibility is there. (YOU are also paying a premium to someone to use that CC instead of cash-your actual price for each item is actually higher than you realize, which you don't get back if you use cash-except for gas at some stations) The younger population today (less than the 7 decades for me) has no recollection of the days before we even had credit cards. Everything was cash only or checks. Only checks had a trail to follow. Airplanes talking to Mother? Its coming and in ways its already here. Can we all say ADSB? Your flights are all tracked down to single digit accuracy and even blocking your ID from the public doesn't cancel the ability for some to know who you are in that mode. No guarantee of privacy in the airspace system. Do you have assets and are you going through a divorce? :-) Stop and smell the roses Now move to wifi connected cockpits in the future? Facial recognition in the pilot seat? Live data connection to someone on the ground? Low earth orbit wifi coverage so there are NO blank spots in coverage. Think about it. From the time you leave your driveway (car connected and tracked) to the time you get back home in your driveway, (airplane connected to the web live full time like the car) your every movement has been tracked and stored somewhere, accessible by someone at some time. NOW factor in AI into the equation! BTW, AI data storage is and will be HUGE and require many time more electricity and water than it does now! Water you say? YES ! Water is used to cool the servers. Massive increases in data storage are being designed right now for AI. AI will change the world as much as aviation did at the turn of the last century. Some of it will be a benefit and some will be used as a determent to society as a whole. It will enter the cockpit at some time. Then you won't have to worry about switching tanks- you'll just monitor the systems operating.

That was just one of the references I've seen over the last month or so,

Because it goes in from the top not the bottom. Can't change the engine either without lifting the entire body off. The software is getting locked up now so if you want a tuner to work on your car the ECM will brick All the cars are/will be reporting to the mother ship as you drive in less than 5-6 years. You have no control over that. If you have a wifi installed you're connected Mother in just a couple of years. The newest proposal is built in drunk driver disable by cameras inside the car watching the driver also if he is sleepy. Thats only a couple years away If your phone is connected to your car (hands free?) all your data on your phone is uploaded to the web and sent to Mother (Ford, etc) so they can sell the data. Includes email, texts, photos most everything. Here's an article https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/ Now back to switching tanks- Its really a personal preference on how we do it as long as we don't run out of gas as many do every year. We are lucky with only 2 tanks to worry about for the most part. Juggling 4 or 6 tanks on other airplanes can be a problem. Used to have 7 tanks on the 707 and a stabilizer tank on the 747-400 giving it 8 tanks in total. Some Bonanzas have 6 tanks with the tip tanks. I'm not a big fan of running any tank to the limit and hearing it in the engine. I just think the sudden change in power output no matter how brief or small is not good overall for the motor and prop. JMO I have run my O-360 the same way for over 2,000 hrs. WOT from takeoff until in the decent , 2500 RPM where the intake was designed to operate and I keep ROP of course because of the carb (tried a few times LOP using carb heat for better vaporization but it was not to successful), That's how to run a R-985 radial LOP with a carb- it works on that engine. I have had maybe 1 or 2 plugs foul doing it this way in over 20 years and I run massives out to about 700+ hrs before the center electrode gets to football shaped. I clean and rotate the plugs every 100 hrs and check the resistance. I've found Tempest plugs do a lot better for me than the Champs. All my cruise is @9,000'. My burn is always 10 for the first hour, then 9 for each hour after I've done 5+15 once with about 45 mins reserve left - all severe clear wx. Never again! Too long to sit now. Take a look at the pictures Champion uses for "worn out" and then look at 43.13 Quite a difference. Never had a problem with the 43.13 way on lots of different airplanes.